Louisiana's Two Mental Hospitals/Institutions need Expanding!

Freedom isn’t perfect.

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Money don't grow on trees in LA. Especially with lots of FED funding being cut.

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Key Aspects of the FY26 Louisiana Budget:
Total Budget: $44.96 billion.
General Fund: $12.15 billion.

The Louisiana total budget in 1959 was $700 million. Today it's $45 billion and growing.

You want tax payer dollars to pay for this shite?

So you would say the current situation is

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crappieman

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you can thank jindal for that, also he should have never closed earl k hospital either

If you ever have a close loved one go through something that needs mental healthcare, you will realize how little there is out there. The wife one time had a severe bout of depression brought on by a death, an illness, and an unreasonable work situation all at the same time. She literally could barely get out the bed to function for days and days. It was going to take two months to get her in to see someone as an Outpatient. I was able to use my contacts and pull some strings to get her seen sooner. This is why the ED is full of people who are way past OP treatment. They cant get in and just ignore it until they have a total breakdown. Its really a sad situation. We pay for every dumbass who goes to the ED for a cold or headache, but the people who really need care and could stay out of the ED are left with nothing. Its one of my pet peeves since watching her go through it.

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Money don't grow on trees in LA. Especially with lots of FED funding being cut.

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If only Louisiana had access to the Gulf of America and a major river that it could capitalize on.

It's always going to be a question of how much power the courts have to commit someone versus their autonomy.

It's the same situation in a lot of states, but people are very reluctant (rightfully so) to give up their potential freedom.

I'd settle for more voluntary, affordable long-care mental health facilities. I've seen a fair amount of clients who could benefit from longer than a couple week stay in an in-patient facility but they're incredibly difficult to find and if you're not on Medicaid incredibly cost prohibitive. And for Medicare to cover case management for folks who aren't in facilities (Medicaid does, Medicare doesn't even if on Medicare due to mental health disability).

I’m all for fundjng that.

So many need mental health and most of the homeless folks are the ones that definitely need it.

It’s a shame that mental health facilities are so limited and act like those folks are like a plague when a little help would go along way with them

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need to be expanded. They have been reduced in size through the years, and many people in this state need to be committed to these hospitals.

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This could be any and every state in the country. A lot of these places were shut down because they became a center of abuse and mistreatment, some Im sure is overblown and some accurate. I think if you made the jobs there all the way down to the custodians high paying, like 100K min, then you'd get better people operating the facilities and caring for the patients. Just take the money we're spending on the crime and homelessness that these people create and it has to be cheaper.